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Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences
Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences

Tools Automated micropaleontology

Automated microscopes

  • 1 x DMRBE LEICA (commissioned in 1997)
  • 4 x DM6000 LEICA (in operation in 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2021)
  • 1 x DMi8 LEICA (automatic inverted microscope, for work with cultures, start-up 2017)
 

Automated stereomicroscope :

  • 1 x MZ16A LEICA+Platinum Leica IsoPro (commissioned in 2014)
  • 1 x MZ16A LEICA+Platinum Leica IsoPro (commissioned in 2014)

Automatic sorting machine foram MISO

  • 1 x ATG / CEREGE (soon 2)

Cameras Peltier-cooled 4Mpixel 14 and 16 bit (Square Pixelss of 6µm side):

  • 2 x SPOTFLEX Black & White (2010, 2011) 
  • 1 x SPOTFLEX Colour (2014)
  • 3 x HAMAMATSU Orca Flash 4 (2017, 2021, 2022)

 

High spatial resolution cameras for photography

  • FLIR B&W
  • FLIR colour
  • SMARTEK B&W

 

Computer equipment 

  • 1 DELL 26-core computing blade
  • 1 servers 
  • 3 DELL computers (30 to 40 cores) 
  • 10 Optical and camera control computers

 

Optical filters (CHROMA)

  • 5 x 561 nm filters
  • 5 filters 635 nm
  • 4 x 460 nm filters
  • 12 Bendfords filters (circular polarisation)
  • Numerous other optical filters (linear polarizers, 700nm, 435 nm...)